Unboxing the travelling show from (Arts) Territory Exchange is currently at Shelf!
‘The Arts Territory Exchange presents un-boxing a travelling exhibition in a box; Moving across continents to be opened and displayed in a number of intriguing domestic and alternative locations. Posted across a network of curators, artists and archivists.
The exhibition takes its name from the pleasures and excitements of receiving postal mail and packages; opening, tearing, ripping and rifling through contents and the Youtube ASMR world of opening and unwrapping through which many people receive sensory comfort.
Through Un-Boxing we play with the ideas of gifting….receiving….waiting and excitement…each recipient will curate a mini show from the material they receive and then add something to the box before posting it on. The audiences for the work may be families, children, pets, or neighbours peering through windows…’
Will next move on to Plas Bodfa – Anglesey Wales
The home of curator Natalie Pace, Felixstowe Suffolk
The home of artist Caroline Kelley, Versailles, France
Saint Croix de Mareuil, France with curator Jane Linden.
Copenhagen, Denmark with art writer Laura Davidson
The second Stage will take a more experimental form and will develop its own network of hosts (each host will be invited to select another curator/artist,archivist) to post the box on to. This will happen around a series of anchor locations which are as follows.
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
The home of Artist Lenka Clayton, Pittsburgh USA
Street Road Art Space Pensylvania.
The Tree Museum Pender Island
The town of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island in the home of Carly Butler and the homes of local residents. (End point).
Reb Green and her students at MICA
Sarah le Quang Sang
Annette Friedrich Johanson
Emily Van Lidth de Jeude